Replication Archive for Anstreicher and Venator (2025): To Grandmother's House we Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility

Published in International Economic Review

This archive reproduces the Tables, Figures, and statistics used in Anstreicher and Venator (2025). Broadly speaking, the code proceeds in four main sections:

-Design-based analysis: this uses data from the American Community Survey and the restricted-access PSID Geocode, available to researchers with requisite clearances. Dofiles for this analysis can be found under "Dofiles/01_reduced_form". For motivational analysis done on ACS, all data and code are available. Within the reduced form folder, there is a "RestrictedAccess_DoFiles" folder which includes code that cannot be run without applying the PSID Geocode data, but will replicate the tables/figures within the PSID secure server.

-Pre-model estimation dofiles: These dofiles prepare the PSID estimation sample and other required utilities to run the structural model. Dofiles for this section can be found under "Dofiles/02_model/01_pre_est"

-The model itself, available in the "Model" directory. The "icflm_master.jl" file reads in other required code and utilities to produce the main simulation results.

-Post-model estimation dofiles: Produces model fit statistics and counterfactual results tables. Dofiles for this analysis can be found under "Dofiles/02_model/02_post_est"

Importantly, the "icflm_master.do" Dofile calls all necessary dofiles in order and indicates which dofiles produce which figures/tables/statistics in comments. The tables/figures themselves will be output into the "Output" folder, with intermediate output and other refuse being put into the "Temp" directory.

As a general disclaimer, note that small differences may manifest between replicated Tables and those in the published paper due to the complexity of the project and updates to the Julia programming language and potential changes in random seeding since the publishing of the paper.
